Single molecule nanometronome

Nano Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 496-500

  Buranachai, Chittanon ^a   McKinney, Sean A ^b   Ha, Taekjip ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA FOUR-WAY JUNCTION; DNA-BASED SWITCHES; NANOMETRONOME DEVICE;

OPTICAL SENSORS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; SEMICONDUCTOR JUNCTIONS;

DNA;

DNA; NANOMATERIAL;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; STATISTICS;

DNA; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 33645414346     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl052492p     Document Type: Article

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